When, at 18, she can apply for the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Pisa, where her father teaches, he opposes it so that she does not seem to want to benefit from her position. Chiara will only testify to this harsh and very demeaning training at the approach of Arsenio’s centenary, in an autobiographical text ( Perfino le stelle devono separarsi [“Eventhestarsmustseparate”2013)whereshealsostrivestoreadthelandscapesofherchildhoodasanimmersioninaworldstillveryclosetotheMiddleAgesthatshewillreadlikenooneelse[« mêmelesétoilesdoiventseséparer ✲013)oùelles’attacheaussiàlirelespaysagesdesonenfancecommeuneimmersiondansunmondeencoretrèsprochedeceMoyenAgequ’ellevalirecommepersonne paternal sentenceįrom her time in a religious institution, she remembers a school of atheism, in view of the sectarian obsessions that divert her from it. If he dialogues with the teenager as an equal, he systematically ruins his point of view in the end, to the despair of his mother. A crushing filiation especially since the man does not envisage that his daughter, by her sex, can walk on her broken ones. A formidable audacity which imposes its method (1954, French translation, Les Belles Lettres, 1993). His biography crosses all the sources without bending any of them to fashionable conveniences. With impeccable rigor, he wrote a master book on Arnaud de Brescia, the sulphurous reformer of the twelfth and century. His formidable commitment to the Resistance was not known until after his death, as he was so modest.Īn exceptional philologist, Frugoni had an admiration for Marc Bloch (1886-1944) that placed him in the wake of the Annales school. The first child of the great medievalist Arsenio Frugoni (1914-1970), Chiara was born on February 4, 1940, in Pisa, where her father taught Italian, Latin and history in high school, while being a volunteer assistant at the chair of medieval history of the university. Editorial Board: Giampiera Arrigoni Colin Austin Anton Bierl Marcel Detienne Giuseppe Giangrande Pietro Giannini Antonietta Gostoli Herwig Maehler Agostino Masaracchia Giuseppe Morelli Domenico Musti Massimo Vetta.Medievalist, recognized worldwide for her studies on Francis of Assisi as well as for her science of the analysis of both scriptural and iconographic sources, the historian Chiara Frugoni died in Pisa on April 9, at the age of 82. Co-editors: Paola Bernardini, Maurizio Bettini, Giovanni Cerri, Franca Perusino. By virtue of the originality of results and of the wide range of discussion promoted, the journal plays a key role in the interpretation of Greek culture and mentality, and has become one of the leading journals for the study of archaic and hellenistic poetry, as well as of Greek and Latin metrics.Įdited by Bruno Gentili. It particularly welcomes contributions which combine a rigorous philological approach to classical texts with analysis based on modern disciplines such as linguistics, semiotics, and anthropology.
The journal was founded in 1966 as a biannual periodical and is now published three times a years it ranges among its contributors the most distinguished classicists from Italy and abroad and has acquired international reputation for its high standard of scholarship.
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